Scientology - A Ruthless Global Scam?

 Lives Ruined by Scientology & Its Scams

The lavish reception of The Church of Scientology London

This cult/church claims to have some 50 million members and was started by science fiction writer L Ron Hubbard apparently to "clear" people of unhappiness. However from my investigations so far, it seems that unhappiness appears to be a very familiar word in the lives of the members of this global scam.

According to those that have managed to escape this "organisation" it thrives by intimidating its followers in a style that would be more suited to the mafia instead of a place of religious study and worship. 

During the past few years, occasional prosecutions against the "church" of Scientology have curbed its menacing behaviour a little.

Eleven of the "Leading" Scientologists including the wife of L.Ron Hubbard were sent to prison during the early part of the 1980s for infiltrating more than a hundred government agencies, what we would today call hacking.

In more recent times a great number of Scientology followers have left the organisation and claimed that they were abused, either mentally or physically.

There is a considerable number of people that are trying to expose the crimes of the "church" from mental abuse, torturous treatment such as forced sleep deprivation to much more serious claims of violent and sexual abuse.

A few "ex-members" have even sued the Church of Scientology with some high court judges having labelled the organisation 'corrupt', 'paranoid, 'sinister' and 'dangerous', yet still, the business is going strong worldwide.

The church claims to have more than seven hundred centres in sixty-five countries around the world. Scientology is trying to push itself forward into the mainstream church map and be "up there" with the big boys in Anglican and catholic recognition.

This crazed plan of action has luckily caused an increase in awareness and activity of worldwide law enforcement.

According to research by the Cult Awareness Network, whose twenty-three research teams monitor over two hundred "mind control" cults and organisations, there is one 'sect' that they receive the most calls for help and support about and that is The Church of Scientology.

Several of the group's members have been accused of committing serious fraud, particularly monetary frauds and scams. Whilst the church as a business draws in the unsuspecting through various groups in publishing, health care, remedial teaching and consulting.

According to one statement, "Scientology is quite likely the most ruthless, most terroristic, most litigious and most lucrative cult that many countries have ever seen".

I'm not sure I would agree with the comment about "most litigious" I feel that honour belongs to The Exclusive Brethren or Plymouth Brethren Christian Church as they seem to sue everyone that makes a wave for them. 

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In my opinion and according to some previous deep research that I carried out, this organisation is in so many ways a criminal business operating on a daily basis.

TIME magazine undertook some pretty in-depth research into the world of Scientology including 150 interviews and reviewed many hundreds of Scientology documents ranging from internal records to court records. 

It should be noted that when TIME researchers offered a chance for the 'church' to put things right, most of their officials refused to be interviewed or to comment, to me that says it all. Overall the investigation carried out by TIME painted a very dark picture of a thriving but nonetheless depraved organisation 

The Birmingham Headquarters of The Church of Scientology (photo from BBC)

There certainly doesn't seem to be any shortage of finances when it comes to this organisation as you can see from the lavish dressing of the headquarters in Birmingham, England (above).

It seems that members/followers of Scientology are expected to donate money regularly to many different projects including ones to fund new churches or relocate existing ones, the expectation for the follower to spend is big. No one cares about a member's financial status, giving to the organisation must be their number one priority.

Those "sheep" that are willing to lay out money regularly will be very much encouraged to "move up the ladder", so to speak. A follower that donates will be given any number of meaningless titles for their "investment" such as; 'Patron Excalibur', 'Diamond Maximus with honours, and many more. 

A professor of psychology at Harvard says that "there is a definite link between the preference for social hierarchies and the urge to dominate others" this certainly does seem to be true in the case of the Church of Scientology. 

L. Ron Hubbard clearly had a feel for hierarchies and definitely seemed to have a strong understanding of the need for status and thus in building a "church" where everything was about control he had it made. Hubbard had his own powerful status as leader whilst "allowing" his mass of sheeple to follow him, read his publications and invest in growing his powerful business. 

The "mighty leader" was said by a judge in 1984 to be "a pathological liar". Having been born in 1911 in Nebraska, USA Hubbard was in the navy during World War 2 and complained afterwards about how the war and his naval service had caused "suicidal inclinations" and had seriously "affected his mind". 

L.Ron Hubbard was promoted in church literature as an "extensively decorated world war two hero, who was crippled and blinded in action, twice pronounced dead but healed through Scientology". No evidence ever seems to have been made available to back these claims up.

Followers are not just in the cult in order to follow a God or "worship" as in the way most of us understand the church. Scientologists are in it to "learn" and to build themselves a whole new life but they don't see that actually, they are being indoctrinated so that living a life of control and knowing no freedom seems perfectly acceptable. 

In the United States in the early 1970's the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) conducted some kind of major audit and proved that Hubbard had been "skimming" millions of dollars from the church and using fake corporations from Panama to launder the money and then hiding it in Swiss bank accounts offshore. 

By 1985 high ranking "defectors" were accusing Hubbard of stealing phenomenal amounts of church money, up to two hundred million US dollars, the IRS were ready to seek an indictment against him for tax fraud. 

His medical claims had already been ruled as fake by a federal court, so Hubbard became fully-religious, He even sought first amendment protection from Scien-tology's strange rites. 

The leaders and counsellors started wearing clerical dog collars, proper churches were built, franchises became "missions", fees became known as "fixed donations" and Hubbards strange newsletters actually became "sacred scriptures". Church administrators worked round the clock to destroy and dispose of documents that the IRS were pressing to see, luckily for the rest of the shareholders/investors in the "church", L.Ron Hubbard died before a case could reach court and as the indictment was aimed directly upon him, the legal actions ended when he passed.

Today nothing much has changed as followers are encouraged and pressured into spending more and more money to pay for "goods and services" invented by the organisation and are promised better and better things for their spiritual and personal future if they spend cash. 

There are lots of doubtful and underhand "charities" in operation and many "donations" made by the "Church of Scientology".There is a lot of money that has been poured in by it's followers spent on suing critics of the organisation including previous members with big lawsuits. Yes sounds very similar to another #cult that I have reported on in recent times. 

Apparently at one juncture, The Los Angeles Times published a series of 'negative' articles on the church, Scientologists spent one million dollars posting huge billboards with the reporter's names and the sides of buses across the city in an attempt to discredit them in a clever way. Posted right above each reporter's name was a positive quote that would falsely portray the church in a positive light as if said by the reporter concerned.

I see a picture emerging here of yet another "church" that believes it is more powerful than the "God" or whatever powers it purports to worship and follow. Here at Lolly True Crime World, we are not just interested in murders and that kind of crime, we are also interested in looking into maltreatment of the innocent and the way that so much corruption manages to cover-up so much.

If you'd like to tell me more about this "church" and bring me evidence that can demonstrate the way that "religion" is used to abuse others, physically, mentally or sexually, do get in touch. Fraud is a crime, taking money from people in the name of religion should not be allowed, especially when the "religion" is just a system designed to indoctrinate the human mind and nothing more.

This is just something that really makes me crazy, there are so many people out there that for one reason or another have got to a point where they seek something more to protect them and to give them a better life so cults use that to their advantage by making innocent people believe a better life comes from "giving out hard sought money".

I will leave it there and I will be back with a true crime investigation in the coming days. Take care, stay safe and I will see you again very soon

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